Bungie Finally Ready to Show Us Marathon Gameplay, Confirms Livestream Date

Bungie is yet acceptable to amusement america much of its upcoming PvP extraction shooter, Marathon, with an all-new gameplay livestream slated for this Saturday, April 12 (or 13, depending wherever you are successful the world).

Last week, the Destiny developer dropped a mysterious tweet that included a bizarre 15-second video that instantly acceptable fans sleuthing arsenic portion of an "extensive alternate world game."

Players realized that wrong the ASCII creation was "a snippet of footage from the archetypal trailer," and if they looked closely, they "notice[d] it's the runner sprinting down a hallway from the trailer."

Another added: "WHEN WILL HE RETURN ERROR ERROR ERROR HAS OCCURRED THE ENEMY RETURNED SYSTEM WARNING: PROTOCOL BREACH EVACUATE THE BASE IMMEDIATELY ALL UNITS REPORT TO STATION INITIATE EMERGENCY PROTOCOL 7 DATA LOSS IMMINENT GOOD LUCK, COMMANDER."

"Thousands of assemblage members crossed the satellite worked unneurotic to unlock the gameplay uncover day for Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter Marathon," Bungie said successful a statement, earlier revealing this weekend's livestream is acceptable for 10 americium PDT (San Francisco) / 1 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6 p.m. BST (London) / 7 p.m. CEST (Berlin/Paris) / 9 p.m. GST (Dubai) pr Sunday, April 13 astatine 2 americium JST (Tokyo) / 3 americium AEST (Sydney) / 5 p.m. NZST (Auckland).

Marathon was revealed successful May 2023 arsenic a reboot of the classical Bungie franchise, but with each its themes of "mysteries, eeriness, and intelligence creepiness." Set connected the mysterious satellite of Tau Ceti IV, Marathon volition spot players inhabit the bodies of Runners, cybernetic mercenaries who person been designed to past the planet’s harsh environments. While exploring the mislaid colony that erstwhile inhabited the surface, players volition hunt for invaluable loot, including caller weapons and gear.

Since the archetypal reveal, however, we've seen precise small else. We did get a improvement update video successful October that shed airy connected Marathon's mechanics, but the workplace stressed however aboriginal successful improvement the crippled was.

Since then, however, and the abrupt cancelation of live-service shooter Concord, Sony is rethinking its absorption connected live-service games. In November 2023, Sony president Hiroki Totoki revealed the institution was committed to launching conscionable six of the 12 unrecorded work games it was moving connected by March 2026, with the displacement signaling the cancelation of the The Last of Us multiplayer game.

Bungie itself is not without controversy, too. It laid disconnected 220 unit — that's 17% of its full workforce — successful July 2024, little than a twelvemonth aft 100 different layoffs astatine Bungie. Just a fewer weeks later, we learned erstwhile Marathon manager Chris Barrett was allegedly fired aft an interior misconduct probe astatine Bungie. Barrett subsequently sued Sony Interactive Entertainment and Bungie for much than $200 million.

To ticker the Marathon uncover live, caput connected implicit to the authoritative Marathon Twitch transmission connected April 12.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.